Journal Club: [paper title] – YYYY-MM-DD

Structured paper discussion – claim, evidence, method, and whether you should change what you do because of it.

Field	Value
Paper	[title]
Authors / venue	[authors, journal/conf, year]
Presenter	@name
DOI / link	[link]
Discussion date	YYYY-MM-DD

One-sentence claim

[The paper's central claim in your own words – if you can't, you haven't read it closely enough.]

Question & context

• Research question: [what they ask]
• Prior state: [what was known / assumed before]
• Why it matters: [who cares and why]

Method

• Design: [RCT / cohort / simulation / qualitative]
• Data: [N, source, collection period]
• Analysis: [techniques used]

Key results

Finding	Evidence	Strength
[result]	[figure/table]	Strong / Weak

Critique

• Strengths: [what makes the evidence credible]
• Weaknesses: [confounders, generalizability, method gaps]
• Missing: [what the paper doesn't answer]
• Would it replicate?: [yes/no + why]

Discussion prompts

1. [question to argue about]
2. [question]

Verdict

• Believe the claim: yes / partially / no
• Changes practice: [what we do differently, if anything]
• Follow-up: [papers to read, experiments to run]